“Laurence can’t really love Aslan more than Jesus, even if he feels that’s what he is doing,” said Lewis. “For the things he loves Aslan for doing or saying are simply things that Jesus really did and said. So that when Laurence thinks he is loving Aslan, he is really loving Jesus; and perhaps loving him more than he ever did before.”If authentic Lewis, it takes the edge off the claim that "...clearly Lewis himself didn't see the [Narnia] books as allegories or as metaphors."
(I'm with my brother on the point that the book is Christian--but only to those well-steeped in Christian mythology.)
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Ah, yes, that slippery definition of "allegory"--a one-to-one correspondence, or something else? To paraphrase Bill Wallo, allegory, not technically; allegorical, yes.
Clearly Aslan is a Christ figure (by Lewis's admission) or a Christ type or a Christ metaphor, whichever way we want to describe it.
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